Design Leadership Jobs
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UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Noma Security 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will lead the entire design lifecycle from research through iteration, collaborating closely with Product and R&D teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. They will own key product domains, simplify sophisticated AI and security workflows, and contribute to evolving the design system.
Electrical Design Engineering Co-op (Fall 2026)
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Matrix Technologies 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
The co-op acts in a support role to the project engineer or technical lead, performing small, checked tasks and working with experienced team members on design projects. Key duties include generating CAD drawings based on detailed designs provided by experienced staff and adhering to company design standards.
Global Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Bank Of America 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
This senior role involves building and leading a team to deliver technology products, developing a technology strategy, and ensuring solutions comply with global network standards. Key duties include producing holistic network designs, documenting low-level solutions, and leveraging automation to solve complex challenges across Network Services.
Electronics Product Design Engineering - Senior Professional
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Schneider Electric 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading the definition, decomposition, and validation of hardware requirements, owning the requirements baseline in tools like DOORS or Jama Connect, and establishing bidirectional traceability across the V-model lifecycle. This includes translating requirements into architectural choices, guiding DFx alignment, owning verification planning, and managing change control processes.
Product Design Engineering Program Manager - Apple Vision Pro
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Product Design Engineering Program Manager is responsible for driving the mechanical assembly through the entire program life-cycle, from architecture definition to mass production. This involves creating streamlined schedules, managing cross-functional progress, overseeing manufacturing/assembly, and providing status updates to leadership.
Product Design Engineering Program Manager - Apple Vision Pro
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This programmatic role involves delivering the mechanical assembly through the entire program life-cycle, from architecture definition to mass production, requiring frequent collaboration with various engineering and manufacturing teams. Responsibilities include driving the development process, maintaining streamlined schedules, managing upstream and CM progress through travel, and presenting status updates to leadership.
Marketing - Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Golden 1 Talent Acquisition Team 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
This role serves as a lead designer, responsible for the creation, development, coordination, and execution of high-impact print and digital advertisements and member-facing promotions, ensuring they are on-brand for the credit union. The Senior Graphic Designer also acts as the primary contact for designing professional PowerPoint presentations for executives and overseeing the production process for various marketing initiatives.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Fertifa 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will own the design of the entire product ecosystem, focusing on the user interface and experience for both the patient mobile app and the clinical/admin web portal. This involves leading the design process from research through to production-ready assets and maintaining the design system.
Product Designer (Wearables)
🇺🇸 Burlingame, CA 94010, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Burlingame, CA 94010, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of wearable device integrations within the Meta AI app, focusing on device management, discovery, education, AI utility, health/fitness, and media features with high-craft design. This role involves turning broad, conceptual ideas into valuable, user-centric solutions for Meta's large user base and championing an "AI-first" design approach.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Diligent Corporation 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process from discovery through high-fidelity execution and developer handoff. A key focus is evolving and maintaining the design system in Figma, ensuring consistency and accessibility across the platform.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Tem Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Lead Product Designer will own design outcomes end-to-end, acting as the 'taste maker' for Agentic experiences in Energy and building the AI native design platform with semantic tokens and reusable components. This role involves designing interaction systems for AI that scale and solving complex product constraints while setting clear design narratives and quality standards.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 McKinney, Texas, United States of America
Srs Distribution Inc. 🇺🇸 McKinney, Texas, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define and drive the overall UX/UI design vision and strategy for B2B eCommerce across web and mobile platforms, while leading and mentoring other UX/UI designers. Key duties include championing user-centered design, leading research efforts, and developing artifacts like personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes to inform design decisions.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, translating business goals and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused designs. This involves creating user flows, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes while applying and evolving enterprise design systems and accessibility guidelines.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, encompassing research, wireframing, prototyping, and final design execution. This role involves translating business objectives and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused digital experiences across web platforms.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.